Where do ticks live?

Ticks are reinforced throughout Süddeutschland encountered, but by spreading their "hosts" up in the north of Germany. A particularly vulnerable Baden Wuerttemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. The Lake District is heavily affected. Only in urban areas such as large cities, one finds it difficult. Across Europe, the tick is now "settled" has become. Italy, France, Austria and Holland and England as well as all Eastern European states have ticks meanwhile the war.

The dreaded holly and the tick Saugorgane are located in front of her head during the opening to breathe behind the last pair of legs in place.

The male tick is by scent of the female scene. After mating the male dies. An adult female ticks can be up to 3000 eggs sit. The larvae are initially a few millimeters in size and have no one but only six legs. The larvae require for their further development of much blood. You get it from small mammals such as mice or hedgehogs. Even a single blood meal extends from the larvae to calmly for several weeks to grow and mature them. Then, the larval skin and reach the second stage of development. They become "nymphs". You are stronger than the larvae and already have all eight legs. The nymphs take place, after two shots of blood, a second skin and are now fully developed as a tick. Because they need to survive a lot of blood closes at this point the cycle again.

The ongoing climate change is under strong suspicion, which in recent years has greatly increased tick population to have caused.